Every year on Remembrance Sunday, West Moors Town Council work with
the Royal British Legion and Local Churches to organise a Remembrance Parade and Service.
Those that wish to be part of the parade meet at 10.30am and the public meet at the Petwyn by the War Memorial at 10.45am.
Residents of all ages, from babes in arms to military veterans, commemorate the original Armistice of 1918 which signalled the 'stilling of arms' and led to the formal end to the First World War (eventually signed in 1919).
Veterans wearing medals are in evidence and there are uniformed representatives of all the services. Community groups and schools come to pay their respects, together with many organisations from West Moors, Ferndown and nearby.
Clergy from Churches Together in West Moors conduct the service, at which a roll of honour of those men who fell in both World Wars is read before the Last Post and Reveille are sounded.
Wreathes are laid (please notify the Town Clerk to be added to the list) and the parade marches past the podium where the salute is taken.
The level of attendance is always wonderful, and the strength of the community is heart-warming.